Health Care

The Democratic Party has been anxious to take over managing health care for everyone in this country since the sixties. Ted Kennedy made it a life long ambition, Hilliary Clinton jumped on board later on, but Obama with his mandate, expects to make it happen in his first year of office. He has the super majority House and Senate pushing his agenda and success is very close. This tremendous new government run bureaucracy will increase the size of government by and unimaginable, scary amount.

But wait, there seems to be objections to a government run public option, where the government competes with private insurance companies.
And, there seems to be objections to the 1 trillion dollar cost, give or take a hundred billion.
Also, there seems to be objections to taking a half a trillion from senior citizens Medicare benefits.
And, there seems to be objections to eliminating the 8 to 10 million senior citizen Advantage insurance plans that cover the gap between Medicare Payments and full payments to doctors, hospitals and prescription drug providers. It looks like these objections are raised mostly by out gunned Republicans, but there is some support by Democrats too.

The final version of the Health Care bill is not finished or out for the public to read yet, a lot of closed door meetings are taking place to compose the final version but targeting seniors, spending big money and not reducing health costs are expected outcomes of the final version.

I find it strange that a health care measures put forward by this administration does not address the more obvious ways of cutting health care costs and insuring everyone in this country without a public option.

If we eliminate expensive, redundant, defensive medical practices, address tort reform, allow sales of health insurance across state lines, write law to prohibit insurance companies from refusing to insure because of previous conditions, establish a health insurance risk pool for those with prior conditions, require everyone to be insured giving special aide to those in need we could cut health care costs by as much as 50 percent. Where do I get my figures? I made them up because no one knows for sure. What if I'm right, or nearly right? Cutting health care costs at the source is a better plan than the government has put forward.

Most doctors in foreign countries are protected from malpractice law suits. Medical boards of review are established to judge malpractice, clumsiness, mistakes with licence's at risk and compensation amounts pre-determined.
American doctors will still not be protected with public health care reform so defensive, expensive medicine will still be practiced.

Open competition among insurance companies across state lines and requireing insurance for everyone while establishing a pool for high risk policies. These ideas seem like a no brain ers for lowering insurance premiums.

'Insurance companies are the enemy and government can do it better, cheaper' is thinking in liberal Washington and that is at the root of our problem. Trial lawyers are a strong lobby that continues to object to tort reform.
Most elected politicians in Washington are attorney's and the mood is not to upset trial lawyers.